Sticks
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Wow.

She's back!
by jjbeguin

Comment:
This is one good composition.

Egito - Pirâmides.JPG
by flavioalima

Comment:
Wow. I always want to visit this place.
There are only two place I have desire to go, one is this and another is angkor vat.
Very good photo. Good work.

The way it was
by jjbeguin

Comment:
Okey I am going to be little bitch here, I really do not like it very much. For me its a so so photo.
My not liking it may be because of the reason that I am not able to think what you thought about it. Or may be I am not able to feel what you felt.
But seeing that scoring high on DPC is not you wanted to do here. (I have not doubt that you are one wonderful photographer) I feel happy that you are submitting what you like. I truely admire this.

In this photo the most troubling part is the top of the photo, where the couple is placed too close to top, suggesting a lack of balance. The photo looks unbalanced and bothers the eyes. The larger black border might have helped it.
The processing you have kept it simple and probably that is the soul of this photo.
I wouldn't call it underrated in fact by DPC standards it has scored more than it might have.

Common Sense...
by escapetooz

Comment:
Did you notice that the bountains behind look like two people are slipping together. With one face and another face with it, but this has the body too. Close your eyes a bit and concentrate you might make out.

Nude Modeling - What book can teach you that?
by btrinh

Comment:
very good work. Nicely composed.

Jess and Steve1 066trial.jpg
by lentil

Comment:
I am not sure about others but i personally liked it very much specially the way you have composed it. Pretty neat.

IMG_7585-640.jpg
by idnic

Comment:
did not like it. It all look so plasticy.

Light up my life!
by smurfguy

Comment:

Originally posted by smurfguy: Thanks for the wonderful comments all! =)

I have been trying to develop a two layer technique. I am not sure whether other people do it or not but last one month or so I have done some portraits with this. Here is how this works.

The glow in your photo is due to blur effect. Using blur for this type of effect is common. But what is not common is to use blur and sharpening both on same image. Since they are antipodal. Try this.
Create a dublicate layer. Adjust the opacity of top layer to 35 %.
apply sharpening on top layer. Now go to base layer and apply Gaussian blur. See the effect. You can adjust top layer opacity to your taste.

These are two examples:
[thumb]600636[/thumb] [thumb]600631[/thumb]

Waiting
by zxaar

Comment:

Originally posted by digitalpins: love this shot awesome tones and I love the amount of black thats in it and he two people is a nice touch

I must admit it was not complete candid, i did notice what the light was doing there. And I was well aware what I was shooting as the most part of this photo goes (other than these two people). Because of this play of light I took many photos of airport. But catching these two was difficult thing.